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<P
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for Others</STRONG></P>
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years ago, there was a medical missionary serving in Egypt. He was perplexed
that many of the people he loved and served there suffered from a life–sapping
anemia. All of his efforts to treat this disease failed. Finally, he learned
that the anemia was caused by a parasitic flatworm, known as a liver fluke.
These flukes lived in the soil of the riverbank along the Nile, and got into
people’s systems through the water.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 12px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px">To
find a cure, the missionary gathered a sample of the parasite and flew with it
to the U.S. to have in analyzed at Johns Hopkins Medical School. However, when
he landed in Washington, U.S. Immigration officials refused to permit him to
bring the liver flukes into the country.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 12px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px">He
explained the situation and pleaded his case, but the immigration officers stood
firm. Finally, defeated, the missionary went to the men's room to dispose of the
flukes. But then he remembered his friends in Egypt. Without anymore hesitation,
he drank the contents of the jar containing the flukes, and entered the
country.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 12px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6px">He
spent the next five years struggling to stay alive, but in receiving treatment
for the anemia himself here in America, he was able to provide the medical
community with the specimens they needed to find a cure for his Egyptian
friends.</P>
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